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"Ye  are  not  bound!  the  Soul  of  Things  is  sweet, 

The  Heart  of  Being  is  celestial  rest; 
Stronger  than  woe  is  will:  that  which  was  Good 

Doth  pass  to  Better — Best." 

The  Light  of  Asia. — Arnold. 


A  NOSEGAY  OF  EVERLASTINGS 

FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEVS 
GARDEN  OF  HELPFUL  THOUGHTS 


Published  by  the  Students  of  the  Raja  Yoga   College, 
Point  Loma,  California,  U.  S.  A.,  IQI4. 


Copyright,  1914 

By 

THE  RAJA  YOGA  COLLEGE 

Point  Loma,  California. 


Dedicated  to 

KATHERINE  TINGLEY 

With  Love  and  Gratitude 


In  their  childhood  and  youth,  in  their  young  manhood  and  womanhood,  she 
has  been  to  her  Raja  Yoga  Students,  Teacher,  Counselor,  and  Inspirer;  ever 
aiding  them  to  abandon  whatever  is  unworthy,  dishonorable,  base  and  selfish; 
and  ever  seeking  to  evoke  in  them  whatever  is  pure,  true,  brave  and  generous. 

These  sayings  have  been  garnered,  with  the  hope  that  they  may  be  preserved 
and  spread  broadcast;  for  they  will  help  all  who  read  them  to  eradicate  the 
weeds  from  their  own  character-gardens ,  that  the  flowers  may  blossom  with  new 
fragrance  and  beauty. 

-THE  GLEANERS. 


WUen  I 


timet  U 


In  the  search  for  freedom,  there  is  eternal  alliance  between  man  and  nature, 
and  the  voice  of  sea  and  wind  can  shout  the  battle  cry,  as  also  they  can  sing 
the  songs  of  peace,  and  whisper  their  dreams  of  the  sunlit  times  to  come. 

But  the  dreams  which  issue  from  the  soul  of  nature  are  to  great  actions 
but  the  inspiration  and  the  guide.  We  drink  of  the  living  waters  of  the  imagina- 
tion only  that  we  may  be  strengthened  for  the  daily  task,  it  may  be  for  the  daily 
drudgery,  which  is  none  the  less  divine,  because  it  is  of  the  earth. 

Katherine  Tingley. 


■-'■  -   ■"•■■  '■  ■"  ■  '*w* 


Katherine  Tinglev  opening  tlie  International  Theosopliical  Peace  Congress,  Visingso, 

Sweden,  June  23rd,  1913. 


"Time's  glory  is     .     .     . 

To  unmask   falsehood,  and  bring  truth   to   light." 

Shakespeare. 


CULLED  FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEYS 
REPLY  TO  THE  GRENNA  CLERGYMEN 

OPEN-AIR  THEATRE,  VISINGSO,  SWEDEN 
JUNE,  29,  1913 


ERRATA 

Page  5,  line  6,  for  "recollection"  read  "realization." 

Page  74,  line  7,  for  "some  things"  read  "something." 

Page  114,  credit  line  at  foot  of  page  should  read  the  same  as  on 
page  113. 

Page  117,  line  1,  delete  "ex-". 

Page  118,  line  6,  for  "our"  read  "your." 


iyij.j 


THE  members  of  the  Universal  Brotherhood  and  Theosophi- 
cal  Society  do  not  come  to  interfere  with  your  religion  or 
your  Government.  We  come  not  to  destroy,  but  to  build  up; 
not  to  disintegrate  or  disharmonise,  but  to  construct,  to  har- 
monise, and  to  cooperate  with  the  best  interests  of  your  country 
— to  bring  Humanity  to  a  closer  recollection  of  its  divinity 
and  its  God. 

Is  it  not  true  that  just  as  long  as  there  is  one  man  or  woman 
in  the  shadows,  in  despair — one  mortal  confined  in  prison  and 
shut  in  from  God's  sunlight,  from  companionship  and  helpful- 
ness, that  your  country  needs  help? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingso,  June  29, 
1913) 

5 


IF  you  would  understand  your  Bible  better,  your  Christ  bet- 
ter, your  God  better,  study  Theosophy  conscientiously. 

***** 

Nowhere  can  I  find  that  Christ  separated  himself  from  Hu- 
manity; but  on  the  contrary,  he  taught  his  disciples  in  substance 
that  ''Greater  things  than  these  shall  ye  do."  Those  marvelous 
teachings  of  forgiveness  and  wisdom  that  he  presented,  when 
interpreted  theosophically,  in  their  true  light,  give  a  new  mean- 
ing to  his  life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visings'6,  June  2Q, 
19*3) 

6 


SURELY  those  present  who  have  been  readers  of  comparative 
religion  and  have   studied  anything  of  history,  do  realize 
that  there  were  great  and  mighty  truths  taught  and  lived  by 
people  of  ancient  civilizations  far  preceding  the  time  of  Christ. 
And  this  is  said  with  all  due  respect  to  The  Great  Teacher. 
*  *  *  #  * 

It  is  a  fact  that  in  the  course  of  time  the  true  teachings  of 
the  Ancients  became  differentiated  and  lost  their  value  in  the 
same  way  Christ's  teachings  are  now  presented  in  different  doc- 
trines. When  we  realize  the  differences  there  are  in  church 
principles  throughout  the  world,  we  can  see  how  easily  the 
teachings  of  the  Ancients  have  been  abused  by  the  degenerate 
methods  of  later  years. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingso,  June  2Q, 
W3) 


WE  believe  in  Deity,  the  Great  Unknowable,  All-Powerful, 
Compassionate,  Eternal  Source  of  Light  and  Life.  We 
believe  that  we  are  a  part  of  God's  Great  Family,  and  that  in 
this  Great  Universal  Scheme  of  Life,  all  living  things  are  in- 
cluded and  not  one  is  left  out. 

We  believe  also  that  man  is  divine ;  that  he  is  a  part  of  this 
Great  Universal  Life,  and  that  as  he  lives  in  consonance  with 
his  Higher,  Immortal  Nature,  close  to  those  Ideals  that  have 
been  handed  down  to  us  from  the  earliest  history,  close  to  those 
teachings  that  Christ  presented  to  us,  he  is,  in  the  truest  sense, 
a  Christian  and  a  Theosophist. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingso,  June  29, 
*9'3) 

8 


WE  believe  in  the  Higher  and  Lower  Natures  in  man.  We 
do  not  accept  the  idea  that  Satan  is  outside  of  ourselves, 
nor  that  Satan,  in  the  dogmatic  sense,  is  inside;  but  we  do  be- 
lieve that  we  possess  two  natures, — the  lower,  animal;  and  the 
Higher,  the  Divine,  the  Ego. 

We  believe  the  latter  is  Immortal  and  is  ever  striving  to 
bring  us  to  a  Higher  State  of  Comprehension  of  the  true 
nobility  of  Life  and  to  a  deeper  devotion  to  truth  and  the  prin- 
ciples of  morality  and  the  love  of  Humanity. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingso,  June  2Q, 
1913) 

9 


WE  believe  that  we  were  born,  not  for  a  limited  life  of 
seventy-seven  or  one  hundred  years.  Christ,  the  Great 
Initiate  and  the  Great  Theosophist,  as  we  call  him,  we  believe 
attained  his  spiritual  perfectibility  through  many  lives,  and  in 
the  experience  of  each  life  developed  the  god-like  spirit  within 
him,  and  in  this  sense  was  truly  the  "Son  of  God". 

We  also  believe  that  Brotherhood  is  a  fact  in  nature  and 
that  we  must  love  our  neighbors  as  ourselves.  We  believe  that 
it  is  our  religious  duty  to  protest  against  error;  but  we  are 
taught  that  we  must  always  be  sure  that  it  is  error  against 
which  we  protest,  before  we  begin.  Possibly  you  will  see  that 
this  statement  has  its  application  to  the  efforts  of  our  opponents. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Fisingso,  June  2Q, 
IQI3-) 

10 


WE  believe  that  the  human  body  is  the  Temple  of  the  liv- 
ing Soul,  and  that  man  must  control  and  master  and  work 
with  this  body,  that  it  may  become  pure  and  do  its  highest  work 
as  a  body.  Therefore,  we  abhor  vice  and  anything  that  would 
destroy  or  interfere  with  the  health  of  the  body  or  the  mind. 

We  hold  that  a  man  cannot  be  true  and  pure  and  forceful 
on  lines  of  real  usefulness  to  Humanity  if  the  body  is  misused, 
if  it  is  not  held  as  a  Temple  of  the  Soul — of  the  Christos  Spirit 
within. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Fisingso,  June  29, 

11 


WE  know  that  the  best  results  cannot  be  achieved  in  the 
ordinary  educational  systems,  where  the  teacher  and  the 
children  are  only  together  a  few  hours  daily;  and  that  often 
there  are  adverse  forces  working  in  the  home. 

The  Raja  Yoga  system  takes  full  control  of  the  child.  From 
night  until  morning  and  from  morning  until  night,  the  child  is 
under  the  influence  of  this  system ;  and  so  the  great  gap  between 
the  home  and  school  is  spanned. 

This  is  one  of  the  basic  features  in  our  education,  and  it  has 
tended  to  bring  parents  into  closer  harmony  with  the  real  needs 
of  their  children,  and  to  bring  about  more  true  happiness  for 
both  parents  and  children.  And  so  the  child  is  afforded  a  cer- 
tain system  of  education  that  is  not  found  elsewhere. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingso,  June  29, 
1913) 

12 


WE  hold  that  the  lower  nature  should  be  an  instrument  in 
the  hands  of  the  higher  forces  of  the  Soul,  the  Immortal: 
and  that  the  mind  must  become  subservient  to  the  Immortal 
Self;  that  when  we  have  this  knowledge,  then  we  shall  have  the 
key  that  opens  the  doors  to  the  means  by  which  we  may  rise  to 
a  higher  state  of  purity  and  spirituality  and  thus  be  able  to  bet- 
ter serve  humanity.  My  dear  friends,  is  there  anything  very 
dreadful  in  this  philosophy? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingsb,  June  29, 
19/3.) 

13 


THEOSOPHY  teaches  that  Brotherhood  is  a  fact  in  Nature; 
that  we  are  all  held  together  by  the  Divine,  Immutable  Laws 
governing  human  Life;  and  that  it  does  not  become  us  to  have 
ill  feeling  or  resentment,  even  towards  our  enemies.  It  teaches 
that  the  spirit  of  forgiveness  must  be  in  our  hearts,  and  so  let 
us  separate  here  today,  realizing  that  that  Higher  Law,  which 
ever  enfolds  us  in  its  keeping,  must  be  sustained  in  true  com- 
passion. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visings'6,  June  29, 

14 


LET  us  remember  that  all  we  have  to  do  is  to  sound  the 
depths  of  our  natures  and  our  hearts,  and  clear  away  from 
our  minds  the  delusions  and  the  mists  that  external  life  presents 
to  us. 

Through  Theosophy,  through  believing  in  Brotherhood, 
and  through  right  living,  let  us  know  the  truth,  the  whole  truth, 
the  Eternal  Truth,  and  thus  receive  that  illuminating  light  that 
should  ever  be  the  guide  of  all  humankind. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  "Reply  to  the  Grenna  Clergymen,"  Visingso,  June  2Q, 

15 


Raja  Yoga  Students  leaving  the  Open-air  Theatre  after  singing  at  one  of  the  sessions 
of   the    International    Theosophical    Peace    Congress,    Visirigso,    Sweden. 


'A    heart    unspotted    is    not    easily    daunted." 

(2  Henry  VI,  Act  Hi,  Sc.  i.) 


CULLED  FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEVS  BRIEF  ADDRESS 

OPEN-AIR   THEATRE,   VISINGSO 

LAKE  VETTERN,  SWEDEN 

Sunday.  July  20,  1913 


-  17 


ONE  may  ask:  "How  can  we  best  help  humanity?  What 
talisman  can  we  give  it  that  it  may  move  out  of  its  unrest 
and  despair  to  a  path  of  reasonable  content  and  happiness?" 

Theosophy  gives  answer  and  offers  to  the  human  mind  a 
book  of  revelations  of  mighty  truths  that  only  need  to  be  learned 
and  lived  to  bring  about  a  new  order  of  ages. 

"Man,  Know  Thyself!"  Listen  to  the  voice  of  Theosophy: 
"Thou  art  dual  in  nature  and  holdest  within  thyself  divine  qual- 
ities on  the  one  hand,  and  the  lower  passions  and  weaknesses 
on  the  other." 


(From   Katherine    Tingley's   Brief   Address   at   the   Open-Air    Theatre,    Visings'6, 
Sweden,  July  20,  1913.) 

19 


LET  man  look  within  himself  and  study  the  mysteries  of  his 
own  nature.  When  he  does  this,  he  learns  of  the  mysteries 
of  life,  and  can  begin  to  work  more  understandingly  for  the  de- 
velopment of  all  that  is  noblest  and  best  in  himself. 

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When  an  aspirant  undertakes  to  live  closer  to  the  higher 
ideals  that  should  ever  be  before  him,  he  can  then  and  there  be 
like  the  wise  man  whom  Jesus  spoke  of,  "which  built  his  house 
upon  a  rock;  and  the  rain  descended,  and  the  floods  came,  and 
the  winds  blew,  and  beat  upon  that  house;  and  it  fell  not;  for 
it  was  founded  upon  a  rock.     (Matthew,  VII,  24-25.) 


(From   Katherine    Tingley's   Brief  Address   at  the   Open-Air    Theatre,    Visingso, 
Sweden,  July  20,  1913.) 

20 


NOW  in  the  world  today  we  see  a  few  men  and  women  living 
their  lives  conscientiously  and  righteously.  Such  as  these 
can  meet  the  descending  rains  and  floods  of  adversity  with 
equanimity.  With  their  motives  pure  and  their  lives  clean  and 
upright,  they  become  living  examples  unto  all.  They  have  as- 
sumed their  moral  responsibilities  and  they  are  doing  their  duty 
to  their  fellows;  and  this  leads  to  happiness. 

Can  you  not  agree  with  me  that  there  are  not  many  such  as 
these?  But  oh!  How  many  there  are  who,  unacquainted  with 
the  Higher  Laws  governing  themselves,  or  with  their  divine 
natures,  build  their  houses  upon  sand? 

Each  chooses  his  path, — one  to  be  sincere,  noble,  helpful, 
and  godlike,  the  other  to  live  in  the  house  of  pleasure,  careless 


21 


and  indifferent  as  to  the  opportunities  before  him,  or  his  duty 
to  his  follow-men. 

So  we  have,  side  by  side,  happiness  and  misery,  health  and 
sickness,  morality  and  immorality.  Let  those  who  are  indiffer- 
ent to  the  needs  of  their  fellows  and  their  own  needs,  look  at  this 
contrasting  picture. 

It  is  indeed  sad  and  even  pathetic  to  see  thousands  of  peo- 
ple daily  moving  on  the  downward  path.  Many  of  them  we  can 
say  have  not  deliberately  chosen  this  path,  in  a  desire  for  wrong- 
doing; but  the  basic  cause  of  much  that  we  see,  in  this  connec- 
tion, in  suffering  and  vice  and  human  weaknesses,  can  be  at- 
tributed to  the  lack  of  knowledge  that  is  necessary  to  bring  the 
human  mind  to  a  realization  of  what  life  means. 


(From   Katherine   Ti/igley's   Brief  Address   at  the   Open-Air    Theatre,   Visings'6, 
Sweden,  July  20,  IQI3.) 

22 


NO  man  can  make  another  good.    One  who  endeavors  to  live 
righteously  can  point  the  way;  but  the  effort  must  be  made 
by  the  one  who  expects  to  conquer. 

***** 
If  Christ's  simple  teachings,  so  beautiful  and  inspiring, 
could  have  been  rightly  interpreted  and  lived  by  the  whole 
human  family  during  the  hundreds  of  years  preceding  our  time, 
what  a  glorious  expression  of  divine  life  we  should  have  among 
men— what  happiness  and  peace  there  would  be  in  human  life !" 


(From   Katherine    Tingle?*   Brief  Address:    Open- Air    Theatre,    Fisingso,   Lake 
Vettern,  Sweden,  July  20,  /Q/J.) 


23 


IT  is  because  of  man's  lack  of  knowledge  of  spiritual  things, 
that  Theosophists  are  ever  endeavoring  to  uphold  the  sub- 
lime teachings  of  the  Wisdom-Religion  to  discouraged  human- 
ity; so  that  man  may  throw  down  his  burdens  of  ignorance  and 
despair,  and  live  in  the  light. 

It  requires  great  courage  to  be  a  Theosophist  in  some 
countries ;  because  there  are  those  who  profess  to  be  followers 
of  Christ  who  are  ever  ready  to  place  stumbling  blocks  in  the 
way  of  those  whom  they  cannot  control. 

Theosophists  realize  that  to  live  one's  life  purely  and  nobly 
and  unselfishly,  one  must  enter  the  strait  gate,  "because  strait 
is  the  gate,  and  narrow  is  the  way,  which  leadeth  unto  life,  and 
few  there  be  that  find  it."    (Matthew,  VII,  14.) 


(From   Katherine    Tingley's   Brief   Address:    Open-Air    Theatre,    Visings'6,   Lake 
Vettern,  Sweden,  July  20,  1913.) 

24 


LET  us  learn  to  be  wise;  to  discriminate,  to  know  the  true 
from  the  false.  Let  us  possess  that  wisdom  which  Christ 
suggests  when  he  says:  "Beware  of  false  prophets,  which  come 
to  you  in  sheep's  clothing,  but  inwardly  they  are  ravening 
wolves."     (Matthew,  VII,  15.) 

Let  us  remember  that  if  we  are  to  judge  humanity  at  all,  it 
must  be  done  in  a  brotherly  spirit,  with  that  consideration  that 
forever  effaces  from  the  human  heart  and  mind  animus  and 
prejudice;  for,  "ye  shall  know  them  by  their  fruits."  (Matthew, 
VII,  16.) 


(From    Katherine    Tingley's   Brief   Address:    Open-Air    Theatre,    Visingsb,   Lake 
Vettern,  Sweden,  July  20,  1913.) 

25 


A  Group  of  Raja  Yoga  Students. 


"To  wilful  men 
The  injuries  that  they  themselves  procure, 
Must  be  their  schoolmasters." 

(King  Lear,  Act  ii,  Sc.  4. 


CULLED  FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEVS  ADDRESS 

HELSINGBORG.    SWEDEN 
AUGUST  12,  1913 


27 


I  BELIEVE  and  so  do  all  true  Theosophists  that  Christianity 
holds  the  essential  teachings  of  all  religions.  And  more  than 
that,  from  the  beginning,  from  the  very  time  that  Madame  Bla- 
vatsky  brought  this  Ancient  Wisdom  (not  hers),  to  the  Western 
World,  she  declared  that  it  was  true  Christianity. 

It  is  true  Christianity ;  and  so  it  is  the  mission  of  every  true 
Theosophist  to  hold  to  the  spirit  of  tolerance,  to  the  belief  in 
brotherly  love,  that  we  are  all  of  God's  Great  Family,  and  that 
it  is  impossible  for  a  true  Christian  who  is  a  true  Theosophist, 
or  a  Theosophist  who  is  a  true  Christian,  ever  to  condemn  a 
brother. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  1913.) 

29 


NOW  if  we  really  stop  to  think,  if  we  consider  the  condition 
of  the  different  countries  today,  and  what  undesirable 
aspects  we  have  in  all  forms  of  society,  we  shall  realize  that  this 
is  not  a  Christian  age.  It  is  an  age  of  prejudice  and  ignorance, 
though  there  are  here  and  there,  of  course,  some  who  have  the 
true  Christian  spirit.  But  it  is  not  a  Christian  age;  and  Christi- 
anity, as  taught  by  Jesus  the  Nazarene,  has  not  yet,  according  to 
my  philosophy  and  my  experience,  been  truly  interpreted. 

But  if  one  takes  Theosophy  and  studies  it  from  its  basic 
principles  and  attempts  to  live  it,  one  gets  so  much  nearer  to  the 
real  Christian  spirit  that  he  is  able  to  interpret  the  Bible  in  a  new 
light,  and  thus  he  becomes  better  able  to  serve  humanity. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  1913.) 

30 


THEOSOPHISTS  hold  that  the  Bible  has  not  yet  been  fully 
interpreted;  that  the  books  of  the  Bible  were  written  in 
different  ages  of  the  world's  history  when  there  were  conditions 
that  we  do  not  have  now;  that  many  of  the  people  whom  Jesus 
taught  were  unlearned — unacquainted  with  the  forms  of  speech 
that  the  Great  Teacher  used  to  his  disciples. 

And  so  Jesus  taught  in  parables  to  the  multitude.  Does 
he  not  say  so?  I  am  telling  you  nothing  new.  He  talked  to  the 
multitude  in  symbols ;  but  the  real  part,  the  spiritual  part  of  the 
teachings  of  Christ,  in  all  their  dignity  and  amazing  beauty 
awaits  interpretation  by  the  true  Christian,  by  the  true  The- 
osophist. 


(From  Katherine   Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,   IQI]-) 

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WHY  do  the  members  of  the  Universal  Brotherhood  and 
Theosophical  Society  work  so  strenuously  in  trying  to 
bring  people  to  this  beautiful  philosophy?  Why  do  the  teachers 
leave  that  beautiful  Point  Loma,  where  they  can  live  and  enjoy 
life  in  service,  to  go  about  from  city  to  city,  asking  nothing  from 
the  public  but  its  attention,  never  demanding  a  farthing  for  the 
teachings,  never  asking  contributions  to  the  building  of  churches 
or  the  paying  of  salaries  to  any  of  its  preachers ;  but  on  the  con- 
trary, reaching  out  to  Humanity,  in  the  spirit  of  Brotherhood, 
giving  freely,  with  a  desire  to  uplift  the  burdens  of  the  people? 


(From   Kather'ine   Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,   I913.) 

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IF  humanity  was  as  it  should  be  in  this  Twentieth  Century;  if 
humanity  had  the  real,  simple,  beautiful,  inspiring  teachings 
of  Christ  and  real  Christianity,  there  would  be  no  need  of  preach- 
ing Theosophy  to  anyone;  because  all  humanity  would  have  it 
in  its  very  blood. 

If  Christianity  were  manifest  today,  as  it  should  be,  we 
should  not  have  prisons,  asylums,  unnameable  vices  and  degen- 
eracy to  contend  with.  We  should  have  a  wonderful  world,  a 
wonderful  human  family,  living  in  the  light  of  duty,  serving  and 
working  together  as  brothers,  seeking  spiritual  perfection. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  IQ/J.) 

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NOW  it  is  the  duty  of  one  who  believes  in  his  Divine  Nature, 
in  the  Higher  Law,  and  in  true  Christianity,  which  is 
Theosophy,  to  be  optimistic,  courageous,  trusting  and  ever  for- 
giving; for  the  light  of  Theosophy,  touching  the  mind,  the  heart 
and  the  life,  makes  man  strong  and  purposeful ;  it  gives  man  con- 
fidence in  himself  and  belief  in  a  hereafter — belief  in  a  wonder^ 
ful  past  and  belief  in  the  Great  Central  Source  of  Life,  from 
which  he  can  draw  strength  according  to  his  aspirations  and  his 
service  to  the  human  family. 

Is  it  not  our  duty  to  draw  more  closely  to  Truth,  and  when 
we  do  this,  to  do  it  in  such  a  way,  by  working  on  lines  of  least 
resistance,  that  we  harm  no  one,  and  interfere  with  no  one's 
rights? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  IQ13.) 

34 


I  THINK  the  difficulty  with  many  noble-minded  aspiring  peo- 
ple today  is  that  they  are  unacquainted  with  the  Science  of 
Life.  They  have  faith  in  a  way;  but  my  impression  is  that  the 
more  one  places  himself  in  a  false  position,  perhaps  uncon- 
sciously, the  further  away  he  naturally  gets  from  the  light  of 
his  ideals.  And  so,  if  we  are  to  go  through  life  on  the  faith  that 
is  presented  to  us,  not  the  real  faith  that  Christ  spoke  of,  we 
must  naturally,  as  a  people  go  in  the  wrong  direction — back- 
ward.    This  is  something  to  think  about. 

Is  it  possible  that  there  is  a  human  heart  today  absolutely 
at  peace  with  itself?  Nay,  I  say;  and  I  say  it  advisedly,  nay. 
Not  one  human  have  I  ever  found  who  was  absolutely  at  peace 
— who  possessed  peace  of  mind,  peace  of  soul — happiness.  It 
does  not  exist. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  1913.) 

35 


ONE  may  have  high  ideals,  and  try  to  live  up  to  them;  one 
may  try  to  serve  humanity  as  best  he  can;  but  he  has  con- 
tinuously running  through  his  life  this  fact;  namely,  that  the 
more  he  serves  and  the  more  unselfishly  he  tries  to  labor,  the 
more  does  memory  bring  to  him  the  unpleasant  pictures  of  the 
failures  made  consciously  or  unconsciously — of  the  mistakes,  of 
the  lost  opportunities,  oh!  so  many  of  them. 

Who  of  us  can  say  we  have  not  lost  great  opportunities? 
And  when  these  memories  come,  when  the  stumbling-blocks  are 
met  by  us  in  life,  and  we  have  only  the  Twentieth  Century  faith, 
we  cannot  be  happy. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  1913.) 

36 


WE  may  have  ideals,  we  may  have  the  memory  of  our  ser- 
vice, but  we  cannot  have  peace  of  mind  if  we  are  abso- 
lutely conscientious;  because  we  know,  if  we  think  at  all,  and 
especially  if  we  understand  Theosophy,  that  our  acts  of  omission 
and  commission  are  telling  along  the  broad  path  of  humanity; 
and  because  we  have  failed  others  have  failed;  and  because  we 
have  lost  our  way  in  the  past  others  have  also  lost  their  way. 
Think ! 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  19/3.) 

37 


KNOWLEDGE:  That  is  what  humanity  needs.  That  is 
what  the  old  Teachers  have  said  all  down  the  ages:  "Man, 
Know  Thyself!"  and  that  would  be  my  message  to  the  whole 
world,  "Man,  Know  Thyself!"  And  how,  in  the  name  of  Heaven, 
are  we  going  to  know  ourselves  if  we  are  constantly  agitating 
our  minds  in  the  wrong  direction,  pessimistically  wondering, 
trying,  experimenting,  questioning,  and  trusting  only  in  the 
brain-mind,  and  leaning  on  blind  faith? 

We  may  listen  to  the  dictates  of  conscience;  but,  when  we 
stop  to  think, — what  is  the  conscience  of  the  Twentieth  Century? 
Our  consciences  are  not  yet  alive  to  the  real  meaning  of  life  and 
the  Higher  Duty.  Why?  Because  of  our  reliance  on  blind  faith 
instead  of  knowledge. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  1913.) 

38 


IF  we  are  to  have  true  Christianity  in  human  life;  if  we  are  to 
have  true  Brotherhood  manifest  in  ourselves,  we  must  have 
clearer  consciences.  We  must  feel  the  power  of  conscience  in 
every  act  and  every  thought ;  we  must  war  with  ourselves,  so  to 
speak — with  the  struggling  lower  self,  that  loves  its  ease  and  its 
pleasures,  the  temporary  things  of  life,  and  often  loses  sight  of 
the  opposite.  We  must  take  a  stand  and  begin  to  work  for  the 
redemption  of  human  nature  by  redeeming  ourselves.  That  is 
what  Theosophy  says. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  1913.) 

39 


LET  us  begin  to  follow  the  path  of  knowledge  and  look  upon 
life  in  even  a  more  serious  way  than  we  have  ever  before, 
and  remember  that  one  moment  lost  may  mean  years  of  sorrow 
to  ourselves  and  others;  that  often  one  mistake,  carelessly  made, 

though  unintentionally,  may  affect  the  destinies  of  nations 

When  heart  and  mind  are  attuned,  then  the  intellect  be- 
comes clear  and  pure  and  strong  and  determined;  then  the  soul, 
through  the  heart  and  conscience,  steps  out,  so  to  speak,  into 
more  active  life.  Here  we  have  Kingly  Union,  Raja  Yoga — the 
Kingly  Union  of  the  spiritual,  the  mental,  and  the  physical.  .  .  . 
When  Raja  Yoga  is  universally  applied  then  we  shall  have 
heroes  and  heroines,  and  statesmen  who  will  illuminate  the  rec- 
ords of  history  through  spiritual  discernment  and  service.  Then 
we  shall  have  nations  fired  by  the  spirit  of  Brotherhood — nations 
united ! 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Helsingborg,  Sweden,  August  12,  IQ13.) 

40 


'But  the  morning  of  manhood  is  risen,  and  the  shadowless  sou!  is 
in  sight." — Hertha,  Swinburne. 


CULLED  FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEVS  ADDRESS 

GRAND   CONCERT  HALL 

AMSTERDAM,  HOLLAND 

AUGUST  15,  1913 


41 


THEOSOPHY  is  based  upon  the  principle  of  Brotherhood. 
So  the  real  spirit  of  brotherhood  is  what  all  true  Theos- 
ophists  are  endeavoring  to  evoke  in  human  life.  We  declare 
that  if  the  spirit  of  true  brotherhood  were  manifest  in  our  na- 
tional and  civic  life,  as  well  as  in  our  international  life,  we 
should  soon  face  a  new  order  of  the  ages — something  new  and 
splendid  for  the  upliftment  and  salvation  of  the  people.  At 
heart  we  all  know  that  we  are  brothers;  and  if  we  stop  to  think 
we  must  also  know  that  in  the  divine  part  of  our  natures  we  are 
not  divided.  But  in  our  exterior  life  the  spirit  of  brotherhood  is 
not  manifested  to  the  extent  that  it  should  be. 


(From  Kather'ine   Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  75,  1913.) 

43 


LET  me  ask  you :  Are  there  many  people  in  the  world  who  are 
really  satisfied? — satisfied  with  their  lives,  or  satisfied  with 
the  conditions  that  surround  them? — satisfied  with  their  civic 
and  national  life?  I  ask  again:  How  many  in  truth  are  there? 
Surely  not  many,  if  any. 

It  is  my  belief — the  result  of  close  observation  and  much  ex- 
perience in  dealing  with  human  nature — that,  if  one  declares 
himself  satisfied,  he  is  sleeping,  so  far  as  spiritual  knowledge  is 
concerned, — only  half  awake  to  the  needs  of  his  fellows,  and 
separated  from  the  real  Inner  Life  by  a  false  sense  of  certainty. 
He  who  follows  this  course  may  be  said  to  be  on  the  path  of 
delusions,  where,  in  the  course  of  time,  he  will  learn  his  lessons 
through  bitter  experiences;  and  later,  in  awakening,  will  realize 
his  lost  opportunities. 


(From   Katherine   Tingley's  Address   at  Amsterdam,  Holland,   August  75,  1QI3-) 

44 


THERE  are  numerous  systems  of  thought  in  the  world,  but 
many  of  them  are  delusive,  because  they  are  based  almost 
entirely  on  brain-mind  efforts,  though  behind  them  there  may  be 
the  truest  motives.  It  is  not  enough  in  this  world  to  have 
grand  ideals :  one  must  have  the  knowledge  to  apply  these  ideals 
to  life.    This  is  Spiritual  Knowledge. 

The  human  family,  if  it  could  pause  and  turn  its  mind  away 
from  worldly  interests  and  pleasures,  even  for  a  day,  would, 
through  that  effort  alone,  take  a  new  view  of  life  and  begin  to 
move  away  from  the  psychological  confusion  of  the  age. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  IQ13.) 

45 


NOT  until  men  live  as  brothers,  conscious  of  their  essential 
Divinity,  of  their  higher  natures,  can  they  feel  the  near- 
ness of  that  inspiration  which  should  move  every  human  heart. 
Because  of  this  lack  of  insight,  I  presume  to  say  that  the  human 
mind  has  not  been  able  to  fully  interpret  the  real  truths  of  Chris- 
tianity. Man,  to  know  himself,  must  become  a  forceful  ex- 
pression of  the  Divine  Life  in  inner  thought  and  outer  action. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  Address  at  A msterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913.) 

46 


THE  Raja  Yoga  system  endeavors  to  fashion  the  lives  of 
youth  more  in  consonance  with  these  higher  principles  of 
Christianity — which  is  Theosophy — that  thus  they  may  gain 
that  power  of  self-control  which  enables  them  to  avoid  the 
temptations  menacing  all  young  lives.  The  Raja  Yoga  system 
is  not  an  experiment.  It  has  proven  its  power  for  many  years 
past,  and  is  pronounced  a  thorough  success  by  all  educationalists 
who  are  acquainted  with  it,  though  it  was  only  inaugurated  in 
the  year  1900. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913.) 

47 


I   DECLARE  that  if  the  older  folk,  the  mothers  and  fathers, 
can  become  imbued  with  the  teachings  of  Theosophy,  they 
are  not  only  fortified,  but  actually  inspired  to  assist  the  youth. 

>;;  $  4  $  $ 

A  tree  is  known  by  its  fruit,  and  the  Raja  Yoga  College  at 
Point  Loma,  California,  which  was  established  thirteen  years  ago, 
is  proving  the  theory  that  if  youth  is  given  from  early  childhood 
the  opportunity  to  know  and  realize  the  duality  of  human 
nature — the  Divine  Higher  Nature,  which  is  immortal,  and  the 
lower,  personal,  animal  nature,  which  is  impermanent — then  it 
is  at  least  prepared  through  environment  and  example  to  meet 
life's  battles  with  clear  perception  and  courage. 


(From   Katherine   Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  Ifj,   IQ/J) 

48 


I  CAN  NOT  help  but  say  that  we  may  organize  and  reorganize 
systems  of  thought  and  found  societies  and  associations  for 
the  betterment  of  humanity;  but  these  can  do  little  permanent 
good,  because  there  is  lacking  a  universal  system  in  the 
education  of  youth.  I  would  not  presume  to  make  this  state- 
ment, which  I  fancy  many  of  my  listeners  will  consider  severe 
criticism,  if  it  were  not  for  my  belief  that  the  teachings  of  the 
Raja  Yoga  system,  which  are  based  on  the  principles  of  The- 
osophy,  can  alone  meet  the  needs  of  the  human  family. 

It  should  be  well  understood  that  this  system  cannot  be  ap- 
plied to  youth  until  the  teachers  themselves  are  not  only  stu- 
dents of  Theosophy,  but  are  living  examples  of  it.  With  this 
picture  before  you  it  will  be  easier  for  you  to  understand  my 
enthusiasm. 


(From  Katherine   Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,   August  15,  1913.) 

49 


ATHEOSOPHIST,  who  believes  in  the  essential  Divinity  of 
his  nature,  and  also  in  its  duality ;  in  the  power  of  the  Divine 
to  overcome  the  lower  self  and  to  illuminate  the  mind,  accepts 
naturally  the  doctrines  of  Karma  and  Reincarnation ;  and  when 
these  truths  become  a  part  of  his  life  he  is  equipped  for  great 
victories. 

#  si:  Sj:  s£  ^s 

The  world  is  cursed  with  too  many  doctrines  and  beliefs  set 
forth  in  the  name  of  religion,  offered  without  that  knowledge 
which  Christ  and  the  many  great  Teachers  before  him  taught ; 
that  knowledge  which  comes  from  the  Christos-spirit  within. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913) 

50 


CAN  you  not  picture  the  inspiration  there  is  in  having  little 
children  growing  up  under  the  Raja  Yoga  system,  con- 
scious, to  a  degree  at  least,  of  their  divine  natures;  not  merely 
believing  that  they  are  divine,  but  knowing  that  they  are;  and 
being  able  to  discriminate  between  the  Higher  Nature  and 
the  Lower?  They  have  at  so  early  an  age  that  touch  of 
knowledge,  simple  as  it  is,  that  works  through  the  heart  and 
mind  and  assists  the  beginning  of  the  real  life  by  self-control, 
by  power  of  resistance  to  evil,  by  finding  touches  of  the  God- 
like spirit  within. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  IS,  1913) 

51 


ONE  may  ask:  What  are  your  hopes  in  connection  with  this 
teaching  of  Theosophy  and  the  principles  of  the  Raja 
Yoga  system?  I  answer,  it  is  that  these  teachings  may  be  in- 
grained into  the  mind  and  heart  of  every  human  being;  that 
they  may  become  living  ideals;  and  that  all  our  fellows  may 
acquire  the  power  to  adapt  their  lives  to  the  teachings,  and  to 
make  Theosophy,  true  Brotherhood,  a  living  power  in  the  world. 


(From   Katlierine   Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  1 5,   1913.) 

52 


WE  had,  long  before  the  teachings  of  Theosophy  were  met 
with  in  modern  times,  grand  ideals;  but  alas!  the  key 
that  opens  the  door  to  true  practice  had  been  lost.  But  when 
Theosophy,  which  is  called  the  Wisdom-Religion,  was  brought 
again  to  Humanity  by  H.  P.  Blavatsky,  nearly  forty  years  ago, — 
for  remember  it  is  as  old  as  the  ages — then  the  great  opportunity 
was  offered  again. 

"Man,  know  thyself!"  It  is  indeed  a  poem  and  a  sermon, 
an  inspiration  and  a  divine  power,  this  sentence:  "Man,  know 
thyself!"  The  teachings  of  Theosophy  engrave  these  words  in 
every  human  life.  I  say:  "Do  not  be  satisfied  with  mere  faith 
and  the  hope  that  is  born  of  faith,  but  gain  knowledge.  Know 
thyself;  become  acquainted  with  thy  Divinity,  and  follow  the 
path  of  righteousness  unafraid." 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913) 

53 


IT  is  the  power  of  the  divine  consciousness  that  we  must  arouse 
in  human  life  before  we  can  think  rightly  or  live  rightly  or 
interpret  the  meaning  of  Christ's  teachings, — the  meaning  of 
Brotherhood — before  the  peoples  of  the  world  can  begin  even  to 
consider  the  true  meaning  of  Peace.  I  mean  real  Peace,  genuine 
Peace;  that  Peace  that  the  heart  of  man  craves;  that  indescrib- 
able touch  of  the  spiritual  life  that  affects  all  of  us  at  our  most 
optimistic  moments. 

Yes,  man  is  calling  for  and  suffering  for  the  want  of  this 
kind  of  Peace — Peace  in  the  heart,  in  the  mind,  in  the  soul. 
Man  may  have  the  ideals,  the  aspirations,  the  ability,  the  genius ; 
but  without  that  key  of  spiritual  knowledge  which  Theosophy 
gives,  Peace  cannot  be  found. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  IQIJ) 

54 


MY  pictures  of  man's  possibilities  are  surely  not  too  far- 
fetched or  unbelievable.  Why  is  it  that  there  are  not 
more  true  Theosophists  in  the  world?  Though  the  Universal 
Brotherhood  and  Theosophical  Society  is  large,  yet  it  seems 
only  a  small  body  of  people  in  comparison  with  the  millions  of 
men  and  women  who  are  indifferent  to  it. 

The  reason  why  people  who  have  become  acquainted  with 
even  the  simplest  teachings  of  Theosophy  do  not  all  accept  it, 
is  that  it  demands  something — new  efforts,  higher  efforts,  de- 
termined efforts.     It  exacts  a  clean,  pure,  unselfish  life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913.) 

55 


THEOSOPHY  teaches  that  human  life  as  we  know  it,  of  sev- 
enty-five or  one  hundred  years,  is  but  one  school  among 
many  schools  for  human  development,  and  that  man's  worldly 
interests,  which  must  be  met  in  a  sensible  way,  are  not  the 
greatest  in  the  world :  that  many  things  that  man  considers  his 
truest  possessions  or  power  are  impermanent. 

It  is  easy  to  see  that  ideas  such  as  these  would  not  coincide 
with  the  aims  of  the  great  masses  of  people  who  live  indifferent 
to  spiritual  things.  Nor  would  they  appeal  to  those  who  are 
satisfied  with  beliefs  only.  The  worldly  life  is  a  selfish  life ; 
the  spiritual  life  is  an  unselfish  one. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  i$,  1913.) 

56 


IT  is  plain  that  those  who  are  indifferent  to  spiritual  things, 
who  are  satisfied  with  mere  beliefs,  live  in  a  little  world  of 
their  own,  like  a  squirrel  in  a  cage;  and  in  spite  of  their  hopes 
and  prayers  and  touches  of  happiness  they  are  held  in  a  great 
ocean  of  pessimism  and  doubt.  Think  how  many  fall  by  the 
wayside  who  live  in  this  self-made  world! 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913) 

57 


THE  human  race  is  moving  along  two  paths:  on  one  are  the 
optimists,  on  the  other  the  pessimists.  How  often  we  see 
the  latter,  living  in  dread  and  fear!  It  is  a  common  thing  to 
find  a  certain  class  of  humans  beginning  before  they  are  fifty 
years  old  to  think  about  death;  to  encourage  the  idea  until  it 
becomes  powerful  in  the  life,  a  real  hypnotic  power.  Some  old 
religious  views  which  are  almost  obsolete  now,  have  accentuated 
this,  and  one  of  the  objects  of  Theosophy  is  to  lift  the  veil  and 
to  let  the  timid,  discouraged  and  pessimistic  people  see  their 
possibilities  and  that  there  is  Light  ahead. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913.) 

58 


I  AM  daring  to  look  ahead,  to  bring  a  picture  of  future  years 
closely  to  your  attention — a  picture  of  humanity  no  longer 
dreaming,  no  longer  sleeping,  but  awake,  aroused  in  the  spiritual 
sense,  living  the  true  life,  walking  unafraid  day  by  day  with  an 
affectionate  devotion  to  duty  and  right  action,  and  the  whole 
world  feeling  a  revelation  of  spiritual  life. 

Surely  Theosophy  does  lift  the  veil  and  open  the  way  and 
point  to  the  path  of  true  endeavor.  And  more,  it  pictures  noble 
possibilities  for  man. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,  1913.) 

59 


THERE  should  be  no  criticism  for  those  who  have  failed 
along  life's  journey,  for  the  cause  can  be  readily  discerned — 
ignorance,  not  real  love  of  evil.  How  could  humanity  do  better 
than  it  has  done  when  it  has  not  understood  its  responsibilities 
or  its  possibilities?  It  has  scarcely  acquired  the  power  to  discern 
the  difference  between  the  true  and  the  counterfeit  in  human 
life.  Poor  humanity  has  had  to  endure,  through  lack  of  knowl- 
edge, impositions  all  along  the  way — impositions  in  the  name 
of  Christianity,  and  impositions  in  the  name  of  Theosophy.  I 
often  meet  the  latter  kind  in  my  travels. 


(From   Katherine   Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  75,   IQ/J.) 

60 


IF  Jesus  were  to  come  among  us  he  would  give  to  the  multitude 
the  inner  life  of  his  teachings,  and  he  would  build  for  a  great 
reformation.  He  would  not  only  confirm  the  inner  teachings 
that  he  put  forth,  which  are  the  same  as  Theosophy,  but  he 
would  attract  the  attention  of  the  world  in  a  new  way  to  the 
grand  doctrine  of  Reincarnation;  for  he  himself  was  an  inspir- 
ing example  of  what  it  is  possible  to  achieve  through  repeated 
rebirths.  He  lived  and  suffered  and  passed  through  many 
schools  of  experience,  many  lives,  but  returned  each  time  to 
live  and  work.  He  gained  the  power  to  be  a  living  example,  a 
true  image  of  the  Divine,  through  his  many  lives.  And  I  be- 
lieve he  would  tell  you  now,  as  he  told  you  then:  "Greater  things 
than  these  shall  ye  do." 


(From  Katherine   Tingley's  Address  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  August  15,   IQI3.) 

61 


GOOD  friends,  if  you  are  inclined  to  take  any  suggestions 
from  me,  study  Theosophy  and  make  an  effort  to  apply 
it  in  your  lives.  Ere  long  your  influence  will  affect  the  great 
body  politic  and  break  down  the  barriers  raised  by  brother 
against  brother,  and  will  bring  together  the  hearts  of  men.  It 
would  unite  them  in  grand  purposes.  Then  we  could  hope  for 
unity  among  the  nations.  God  speed  the  time,  I  say!  May 
the  study  of  Theosophy  lead  all  despairing  hearts  to  the  knowl- 
edge that  shall  purify  human  life  and  ennoble  it!  May  all  find 
that  path  that  ultimately  will  lead  to  peace  and  happiness,  not 
only  for  themselves,  but  for  all  their  fellows ! 


(Katherine    Tingley's    closing    words    in    her    address    at    Amsterdam,    Holland, 
August  15,  191 3) 

62 


Raja  Yoga  Children  and  some  of  their  pets. 


"//  of  life  you  keep  a  care, 
Shake  off  slumber,  and  beware: 
Awake!   Awake!" 

— The  Tempest,  Act  ii,  Scene  /. 


CULLED  FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEYS  ADDRESS 

COPLEY-PLAZA  HOTEL  AUDITORIUM 

BOSTON.  MASSACHUSETTS,  U.  S.  A. 

September  17,  1913 


63 


THE  grotesque  ideas  and  teachings  that  have  been  presented, 
in  the  name  of  Theosophy,  to  the  thinking  minds  of  the  age, 
are  so  numerous  that  one  cannot  recall  them  except  by  the  very 
disastrous  results  that  have  followed.  My  mission,  if  I  have 
any  at  all,  particularly  in  public  work,  is  to  try  to  clear  away, 
as  much  as  possible,  these  false  impressions,  and  to  present  to 
the  public  Theosophy  pure  and  simple. 

Theosophy  is  the  Science  of  Life.  It  opens  the  way  for  man 
to  find  his  own  divinity,  and  thus  to  know  his  possibilities.  In 
doing  this  he  naturally  becomes  acquainted  with  his  own  re- 
sponsibilities. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913) 

65 


IF  we  look  around  us  ...  we  find  marked  divisions  among  the 
people.  We  know  division  exists  also  among  the  nations; 
and  we  further  know  that  the  many  doctrines  that  are  taught  in 
the  name  of  Truth  are  carrying  human  minds  away  from  it; 
that  the  real  or  fundamental  principles  of  religion,  the  essential 
teachings  of  all  religions,  which  Theosophy  endorses,  are  lost 
sight  of  in  the  forms  and  "isms"  which  surround  them. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

66 


IF  we  are  to  attempt  to  correct  any  of  the  social  difficulties  of 
the  day,  we  must  as  a  body  realize  that  we  are  essentially 
divine.  We  must  realize  it  so  truly  and  so  thoroughly  that  it 
will  be  utterly  impossible  for  us  to  move  away  from  the  divine 
part  of  our  natures. 

We  must  learn  these  simple  teachings  of  Theosophy:  that 
man  is  dual ;  that  he  is  governed  by  the  Universal  Laws  of  Life ; 
that  in  his  evolution  he  passes  from  one  state  or  stage  to  an- 
other; and  that  in  these  experiences  he  has  his  opportunity  to 
learn  the  real  meaning  of  life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

67 


NOW  I  wonder  how  many  people  there  are  today  who  are 
absolutely  sure  of  themselves;  who  are  so  well  balanced 
and  so  well  equipped  in  the  knowledge  of  the  laws  governing 
their  own  lives  that  they  can  stand  out  heroically  and  meet  the 
difficulties  of  life,  as  they  come,  with  courage  and  confidence, 
with  absolute  trust.     I  repeat,  how  many?     Very  few. 

According  to  my  idea  of  Theosophy,  the  cause  of  this  is 
that  man  is  unacquainted  with  himself;  ...  he  is  eternally  de- 
pending upon  the  intellectual  and  forgetting  the  higher  part, 
the  divine  part,  the  intuitional  part,  the  inspiring  part  of  his 
nature. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

68 


THIS  Twentieth  Century  is,  in  my  opinion,  not  an  enlight- 
ened age  at  all.  It  is  a  prejudiced  age,  a  time  of  change  and 
transition,  and  extremes  are  meeting;  and  we  have  some  very, 
very  serious  problems  to  contend  with  in  our  national,  civic  and 
social  life. 

If  we  think  at  all,  away  from  our  egotism,  and  step  out  into 
the  world  with  a  determined  will  and  see  life  as  it  is,  we  realize 
that  unbrotherliness  is  the  insanity  of  the  age — unbrotherliness, 
that  fearful,  shocking  and  pathetic  cause  of  separation  that 
exists  among  men  in  the  world  today.  It  not  only  touches  our 
public  life  but  our  personal  lives;  and  of  course  it  reaches  our 
homes.  .  .  .  We  need  to  have  a  universal  religion;  and  if  we 
had  this  we  should  have  a  universal  system  of  education. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

69 


ACCORDING  to  what  I  perceive  in  my  travels  and  from  my 
study  and  my  contact  with  human  nature  all  over  the 
world,  I  find  that  the  human  mind  is  psychologized  by  fear.  I 
may  shock  some  by  making  this  statement,  yet  many  of  the 
greatest  minds  that  I  have  known  show  a  timidity  and  a  lack 
of  a  certain  quality  of  courage  that  is  absolutely  essential  to 
one's  noblest  work.  Alas!  If  we,  as  members  of  the  human 
family,  could  only  go  on  from  day  to  day,  from  week  to  week, 
and  year  to  year,  unafraid! 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913) 

70 


I  CANNOT  conceive  how  a  human  being  can  begin  to  go 
through  life  unafraid  until  he  has  some  knowledge  of  his  own 
nature  and  the  majestic  laws  governing  his  life, — until  he  works 
in  consonance  every  day  and  every  hour  with  his  higher,  nobler 
nature — his  Immortal  Self.  The  mission  of  Theosophy  is  to 
bring  to  the  human  mind  knowledge  of  man's  essential  Divinity 
— an  interpretation  of  that  wisdom  which,  in  a  very  true  sense, 
is  older  than  the  ages,  far  preceding  the  accepted  time  of  the 
promulgation  of  the  teachings  of  Jesus. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

71 


TO  me,  the  thought  of  a  child's  coming  into  this  world, 
except  into  the  best  environment  and  prepared  conditions, 
is  a  most  pathetic  tragedy.  This  may  seem  far-fetched  to  you ; 
but  when  I  think  of  the  young  souls  born  into  the  atmosphere 
of  human  life  as  it  is  today,  I  declare  it  is  pathetic. 

I  believe  that  every  mother  should  be  removed  from  the 
pressure  of  every-day  external  conditions,  which  we  know  near- 
ly always  surround  the  coming  among  us  of  a  new  life — away 
from  the  fevered  unrest  of  the  world,  closer  to  Nature,  where 
spiritual  preparation  could  be  made  which  would  enable  her  to 
find  the  key  to  her  possibilities  as  a  Mother,  and  to  learn  to  think 
and  feel  and  love  in  a  new  way,  in  a  broader,  a  deeper  way,  in 
order  that  she  might  better  protect  and  guide  the  new-born  life. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  iqij.) 

12 


NOT  until  woman  has  higher  knowledge— a  better  under- 
standing of  her  own  nature  and  of  her  power  to  serve, — 
can  the  children  have  their  best  and  rightful  opportunities.  .  .  . 
What  assurance  have  we  that  young  souls  touching  this  plane 
of  ours  shall  have  their  due  opportunities? 

The  mother-heart,  we  know,  holds  love  and  devotion  and 
the  spirit  of  self-sacrifice  for  her  own ;  and  it  is  also  to  be  found 
in  the  father's  heart.  But  when  a  soul  enters  upon  the  arena  of 
life,  it  is  not  of  course  the  real  "possession"  of  its  mother  and 
father.  Besides,  they  have  not  yet  gained  that  sure  knowledge 
necessary  to  give  it  its  best  opportunities.  And  so,  in  the  course 
of  time,  the  child  inevitably  drifts  into  the  great  ocean  of  ignor- 
ance, unrest  and  suffering,  which  are  the  prevailing  conditions 
of  the  present  age. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

73 


I  SAY  again,  it  is  a  tragedy  for  a  child  to  be  born  into  the 
world  under  present  conditions  of  human  life.  .  .  .  False 
education,  man's  lack  of  knowledge  of  his  own  spiritual  and 
mental  heritage  and  of  his  possibilities,  and  those  forces  that 
are  the  result  of  the  present-day  mental  confusion, — these  hold 
and  fetter  the  young  soul  and  shut  out  its  best  opportunities. 

If  we  are  to  serve  humanity  rightly,  really  to  do  some  things 
to  lift  its  burdens,  we  must  begin  our  preparatory  and  remedial 
work  in  the  home.  In  this  thought,  is  there  not  something  new 
for  parents  to  think  about? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

74 


HUMANITY  must  take  a  new  view  of  marriage.  Though 
the  subject  has  been  seriously  studied  all  down  the  ages, 
yet  rarely  do  we  hear  of  a  marriage  that  carries  with  it  in  after 
years  that  sacred  atmosphere  which  should  be  there.  And  so, 
in  viewing  present-day  marriages,  one  finds,  if  one  thinks  at  all 
about  this  subject,  that  it  is  the  lack  of  knowledge  of  the  laws 
governing  human  nature,  which  brings  about  so  many  tragedies 
in  home-life.  So  often  are  misfit  temperaments  and  unsympa- 
thetic natures  bound  through  delusion  by  the  ties  of  marriage, 
while  desire  and  passion  are  not  infrequently  cloaked  in  the 
garb  of  love. 


(From  Katlierine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

75 


TRUE  it  is,  the  parents  of  the  present  day  have  their  grand 
ideals,  their  hopes,  and  their  dreams  and  their  prayers;  but 
they  have  not  the  key  to  the  problem.  How  can  two  souls  on 
this  plane  expect  to  go  through  life,  doing  their  fullest  duty  to 
the  sacred  obligation  of  marriage,  when  they  are  unacquainted 
with  the  divine  laws  that  should  fashion  their  lives, — when 
spiritual  discrimination  is  sleeping? 

5jt  3fS  5jc  ;,:  3fS 

Humanity  needs  to  be  awakened  to  its  dangers, — yes,  and 
awakened  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Science  of  Life. 

The  Science  of  Life  is  Theosophy.  Let  us  clear  the  way 
for  the  coming  generations;  let  us,  through  the  knowledge  that 
can  be  gained  of  ourselves,  cultivate  that  quality  of  understand- 
ing that  shall  purify  human  nature  and  evolve  soulful  beings. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

76 


IS  my  picture  of  the  danger  to  the  young  far-fetched?  Look 
at  our  youth  on  the  streets!  See  the  wrecks  in  society,  in 
prison,  everywhere;  and  then  tell  me  if  those  who  have  erred 
and  fallen  and  lost  their  way,  have  had  their  fullest  opportun- 
ities! Oh!  the  pity  of  it!  Wrecked  homes!  Divorces  treading 
on  the  heels  of  divorces,  and  suicides,  and  all  manner  of  crimes ! 
And  these  are  our  progeny — the  progeny  of  the  Twentieth 
Century ! 

"How  can  these  conditions  be  changed?"  you  may  ask. 
Why,  through  man's  becoming  acquainted  with  himself, — with 
his  real  self.  To  gain  self-knowledge,  man  must  know  and  rea- 
lize his  divinity;  he  must  work  in  consonance  with  the  nobler 
part  of  his  nature. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

77 


IN  place  of  blind  faith,  let  us  have  knowledge,  in  order  that  we 
may  be  able  to  face  ourselves,  our  weaknesses,  and  to  chal- 
lenge our  Higher  Natures,  and  gain  that  control  over  ourselves 
that  will  aid  us  in  meeting  understandingly  the  sorrows  and  dis- 
appointments and  unbrotherliness  of  the  age.  When  the  Divine 
Light  has  touched  our  intellects,  we  then  shall  see;  and  in 
seeing,  we  shall  realize ;  and  in  realizing,  we  shall  become. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

78 


THE  mission  of  Theosophy  is  not  to  tell  you  that  you  can 
chase  an  astral  orb  and  find  your  affinity;  or  recall  a  former 
incarnation  and  thus  gain  "power".  No;  the  mission  of  The- 
osophy is  to  have  you  stand  face  to  face  with  the  serious  facts  of 
life  and  the  serious  problems  that  surround  you ;  to  sound  the 
depths  of  your  natures  and  find  the  Light.  This  you  must  do 
if  you  are  to  serve,  and  help  lift  the  burdens  of  Humanity. 
Truly  you  must  know  yourselves: — "Man,  Know  Thyself!" 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

79 


THE  negative  quality  in  human  nature  predominates,  and  the 
Real  Self,  the  Divine  Self,  is  asleep.  Human  beings  have 
their  reasoning  powers,  and,  as  we  know,  many  valuable  attri- 
butes; but  at  the  same  time  there  is  a  woful  lack  of  knowledge. 
One  discovers  this  in  all  walks  of  life.  Study  the  faces  of  the 
men  and  women  that  you  pass  every  day  on  the  streets.  See  the 
pessimistic  lines  of  unrest  and  doubt  and  despair  written  there. 
Then,  too,  there  are  other  marks  that  are  painful  and  pathetic, 
and  show  the  decadent  tendencies  of  the  age  we  live  in. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913) 

80 


WE  must  arouse  our  Divine  Natures.  How  can  it  be  done? 
I  could  never  do  it  for  you;  even  the  greatest  orator  and 
the  greatest  Teacher  of  the  world  could  not  do  this  for  you. 
You  must  do  it  for  yourselves  in  your  own  individual  ways. 
But,  you  can  never  reach  the  truths  of  Theosophy  if  you  are 
timid  and  half-hearted,  or  if  you  attempt  to  bring  these  splendid 
truths  down  to  your  standard  of  thinking  and  living. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

81 


TO  feel  the  fire  of  Theosophy,  with  its  stimulating  redemp- 
tive power  in  your  lives,  your  minds  must  become  as  free 
and  as  receptive  as  the  flowers  are  to  the  sunlight.  You  must 
awake  to  the  glory  of  the  morning,  so  to  speak;  search  for  the 
truth;  begin  to  climb  the  mountains  of  Light;  and  by  self-con- 
quest and  perseverance  in  search  of  Truth,  you  shall  reach  the 
heights.  Then,  my  beloved  people,  you  will  begin  to  know  your- 
selves. That  is  the  one  essential  thing:  "Man,  Know  Thyself!" 
These  words  have  a  wonderful  occult  meaning. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913) 

82 


IF  one  should  reach  the  mountain-heights  in  trust,  he  never 
would  be  satisfied  to  remain  there  alone;  he  would  long  to 
have  the  whole  world  with  him,  and  he  too  would  work  as  do 
the  few, — the  members  of  the  Universal  Brotherhood  and  The- 
osophical  Society, — for  the  redemption  of  humankind. 

He  would  work  and  work,  because  he  had  found  the  remedy 
that  would  lift  the  burdens  of  the  world;  he  would  become  a 
noble  example  in  effort,  and  he  would  be  able  to  bear  the  search- 
light on  his  life  and  character  at  all  times.  He  would  endure 
persecution  and  abuse,  because  he  would  be,  so  to  say,  on  the 
mountain-heights  in  his  strength,  in  his  soul-life,  in  his  power, 
seeing  humanity  ultimately  ascending  through  self-conquest, 
through  real  knowledge. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

83 


ONE  cannot  study  Theosophy  superficially  or  half-heartedly 
and  then  spend  the  best  mental  energy  in  merely  discussing 
what  he  does  not  understand,  without  loss.  In  order  to  receive 
the  full  benefit  and  inspiration  of  the  glorious  teachings  of 
Theosophy,  one  must  apply  them  to  his  life;  then  Theosophy 
becomes  simplicity  itself. 

A  child  can  be  taught  these  simple  truths  and  understand 
them.  I  have  seen  it  done  with  very  young  children.  .  .  . 
Truly  it  is  beautiful  to  see  the  plastic  and  innocent  mind  of  the 
youth  responding  to  the  teachings  of  Theosophy.  And  then  to 
watch  their  growth  and  follow  them  from  year  to  year  in  their 
efforts  to  overcome  and  gain  knowledge,  is  inspiring. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

84 


THERE  is  another  feature  that  comes  before  us  in  connec- 
tion with  the  influence  of  Theosophy  on  the  mind  of  the 
young, — it  is  the  attitude  that  the  Raja  Yoga  students  hold  to- 
wards their  studies.  They  do  not  meet  them  as  a  task,  but  as 
a  pleasure;  because  in  gaining  self-control  their  minds  are  puri- 
fied and  strengthened  with  the  thoughts  of  the  necessity  of 
proper  education — Raja  Yoga.  Indeed,  they  go  to  school  as  they 
go  through  life, — understandingly,  as  far  as  heredity  and  Karma 
will  permit. 

Yes,  the  intellect  of  the  youth,  as  of  the  adult,  is  the  instru- 
ment of  the  soul,  and  must  be  truly  cultivated  in  the  very  broad- 
est sense,  free  and  open  for  the  reception  of  the  Light, — for  the 
Glory  of  the  Law  to  manifest  in  the  life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

S5 


1AM  often  questioned  why  Theosophists  are  so  optimistic; 
why  so  cheerful  and  able  to  meet  difficulties  in  human  life  so 
courageously.  I  answer  that  it  is  because  they  have  discovered 
hope  and  strength  in  Theosophy;  also  because  they  realize,  to 
a  degree  at  least,  that  they  have  sacred  duties  to  carry  out,  if 
they  are  to  find  happiness;  and  so,  in  rendering  service  to  hu- 
manity, they  touch  the  well-spring  of  a  better  life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  IQI3.) 

86 


I  AM  often  asked  why  I  leave  beautiful  Point  Loma  and  the 
opportunities  that  I  have  in  literary  work  and  on  other  lines, 
and  go  out  and  talk  to  people,  making  new  paths  for  persecu- 
tion and  misunderstanding  and  misrepresentation.  Why  do  I 
do  it? 

Because  I  have  in  my  heart  this  great,  unspeakable  joy, — 
this  little  knowledge,  oh!  so  very  little  in  comparison  to  what 
lies  before  me;  but  I  have  the  knowledge  that  tells  me  that  the 
teachings  of  Theosophy  are  true;  that  they  are  rational;  that 
they  are  not  far-fetched;  that  they  are  logical;  and  that  they 
are  the  panacea  for  man's  woes  and  ignorance ;  and  thus  I  would 
serve  humanity. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

87 


A  SINCERE  Theosophist  meets  death — or  rebirth,  as  we  call 
it — with  a  trust  and  a  peace  such  as  I  have  never  seen  in 
others.  This  is  because  Theosophy  teaches  that  death  is  birth, 
— but  a  step  into  another  school  of  experiences,  where  more 
knowledge  can  be  gained  and  more  service  can  be  rendered. 

Can  you  not  see,  my  good  friends,  that  in  this  thought  the 
sting  of  death  is  removed?  If  one  takes  the  mind  away  from  the 
outer  aspect  of  this  change,  one  finds  relief  and  help ;  but  at 
present  humanity  is  psychologized  with  a  grewsome,  truly  awful 
picture  of  death. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  IQ13.) 


WHAT  a  study  is  man!  Is  it  not  true  that  just  when  he  is 
at  a  point  of  the  possible  understanding  of  himself  and  of 
the  meaning  of  his  life,  he  begins  to  burden  himself  with  fears 
of  death,  and  often  counts  himself  as  too  old  to  take  up  any  new 
study  or  make  any  new  efforts  for  self-development  after  he  is 
fifty?  He  lives  so  much  in  the  thought  of  the  nearness  of  death 
that  he  begins  to  economize  and  ever  keeps  before  him  a  picture 
of  poverty  in  old  age!  All  his  energy  is  spent  in  preparation 
for  the  change — Death,  not  Life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A., 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

89 


A  MIND  burdened  by  psychological  pictures  of  this  kind, 
affects  the  very  atoms  of  the  blood  with  fear  and  trembling, 
and  disintegration  begins.  Instead  of  looking  upward,  he  looks 
downward;  his  shoulders  droop;  he  bends  his  head  and  he 
pictures  himself  marching  on  to  death;  yet  all  the  time  the 
Higher  Self,  the  Immortal  Self,  is  ever  urging  him  to  self-preser- 
vation, to  live  out  the  full  length  of  his  life  in  consonance  with 
Nature,  and  to  walk  unafraid. 

Alas !    It  is  the  psychology  of  the  age  that  holds  the  human 
mind  in  bondage,  in  unrest  and  despair. 


(From   Katherine    Tingley's   Brief   Address:    Open-Air    Theatre,    Visingsb,   Lake 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

90 


BUT  the  Theosophical  conception  of  death — how  beautiful  it 
is !  A  true  Theosophist  is  always  prepared  for  that  change 
at  the  unexpected  moment.  He  sees  new  opportunities  ahead 
for  the  soul's  growth;  he  can  sit  beside  the  dying  bed  and  in 
sympathy  go  out  in  thought  with  the  departing  loved  one  to  a 
new  contemplation  of  love  and  joy.  He  views  this  release  as  a 
merciful  expression  of  the  Divine  Law;  and  when  the  eyes  are 
closed  and  the  absence  of  the  loved  one  is  felt  so  keenly,  he  can 
hold  himself  in  peace  and  trust,  and  lose  the  sense  of  grief  in  the 
peace  of  knowledge. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

91 


WE  must  live  in  the  Light  and  in  the  knowledge  of  the  Law, 
before  we  can  meet  death  understandingly.  Otherwise  we 
shall  go  on  in  our  present  condition,  temporizing  with  the  law 
and  our  own  weaknesses.  We  sob  and  we  cry,  and  we  put  on 
our  crape  and  black  dresses. 

But  are  these  things  to  gladden  the  departed  soul?  Nay, 
nay. 

We  stay  wrapped  in  our  own  selfish  grief  and  loss;  and  the 
soul  of  our  loved  companion  goes  out  to  its  new  life  alone.  We 
forget  the  mercy  of  the  Great  Law;  and  not  having  the  knowl- 
edge that  explains  these  wonderful  mysteries  of  life  and  death, 
we  are  selfishly  shut  in  by  our  own  mental  confusion  concern- 
ing the  Great  Change. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S. 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

92 


WITH  this  new  view,  when  parting  from  your  loved  ones, 
you  could  love  them  in  a  new  way  and  help  them;  go 
along  the  new  way  with  them  in  thought,  with  the  ever-inspir- 
ing knowledge  that  love  is  immortal,  that  love  is  eternal  and 
that  there  is  no  real  separation  possible.  How  can  a  human 
mind  doubt?  How  can  it  view  this  rebirth  as  a  real  separation? 
Is  it  not  rational  to  believe  that  if  the  hearts  and  souls  of  men 
have  been  bound  together  by  this  Higher  Law,  this  same  Law 
will  continue  to  hold  them  in  its  keeping. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913) 

93 


BE  assured,  my  friends,  that  in  the  great  Cycle  of  Time,  un- 
der the  right  conditions,  we  shall  meet  our  own  again.  No 
power  on  earth  or  in  Heaven,  so  to  speak,  can  separate  those 
who  are  bound  with  the  true  tie  of  love, — immortal  love.  We 
have  not  to  think  how  it  shall  be,  or  when  and  where  it  shall  be, 
— this  re-union;  we  have  only  to  do  our  duty  day  by  day  in  the 
truest  sense,  to  lead  the  Theosophical  life  in  the  Now,  in  the 
ever-present  Now,  in  the  conscious  knowledge  of  the  Higher 
Law ;  and  at  the  right  time,  under  the  right  conditions,  we  truly, 
truly  shall  meet  our  own  again. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913.) 

94 


IT  is  your  duty  to  meet  the  yearnings  of  your  own  hearts  and 
find  the  Christos  spirit  touching  your  life,  bringing  "The 
Glory  of  God",  so  to  speak,  into  your  thoughts  and  acts.  And  is 
it  not  easy  to  see  that  you  might  thus  catch,  even  in  this  life, 
a  glimpse  of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  on  Earth? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  address  at  the  Copley-Plaza,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 
Sept.  17,  1913) 

95 


The  Main  Entrance  to  the  Grounds  of  the  International  Theosophical  Headquarters. 


"Here  in  this  island  ive  arrived;  and  here 
Have  I,  thy  schoolmaster,  made  thee  more  profit 
Than  other  princess'  can,  that  have  more  time, 
For  vainer  hours  and  tutors  not  so  careful." 

(The  Tempest,  Act  i,  Sc.  2.) 


CULLED  FROM 

KATHERINE  TINGLEYS  ADDRESS 
TO  HER  STUDENTS 

ARYAN  MEMORIAL  TEMPLE 

International  Theosophical  Headquarters 

Point  Loma.  California 

September  28,  1913 


97 


THOSE  who  have  striven  the  most,  those  who  have  studied 
Theosophy  the  most,  and  who  love  the  work  the  most,  and 
are  ready  to  make  the  greatest  sacrifices  for  it,  have  not  yet 
taken  in  fully  the  sacredness  of  all  that  a  Theosophical   Life 


means. 


I  know  that  when  she  (H.  P.  Blavatsky)  began  this  Work, 
her  first  task  was  to  gather  her  children  together, — those  with 
whom  she  had  worked  before,  knowing  that  the  impress  of  the 
old  teachings  was  still  with  them,  and  that  they  only  needed 
revivifying  through  the  touch  of  a  devotional  life,  a  life  of  sac- 
rifice, to  bring  them  together  in  a  most  superb  unity. 


(From   Katherine   Tingley's  Address   to   her  Students,   Aryan  Memorial   Temple, 
Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  1913.) 

99 


IN  studying  the  possibilities  of  those  whom  she  had  gathered 
together,  H.  P.  Blavatsky  realized  that  they  were  nearer, 
perhaps  much  nearer,  self-conquest  than  they  dreamed, — more 
purified  and  possibly  more  crucified  through  their  suffering  in 
the  world,  and  that  if  they  would  awaken  under  the  inspiration 
of  Theosophy,  as  it  is  now  presented,  with  all  the  opportunities 
that  are  at  hand,  the  whole  world  would  be  aroused. 


(From   Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Aryan  Memorial   Temple, 
Point  Loma,  California,  Sept.  28,  1913) 


100 


COULD  you  conceive  that  a  true  Teacher  like  H.  P.  Blavatsky 
or  William  Q.  Judge  would  attempt  to  do  just  the  ordinary 
things — just  the  pleasing,  the  entertaining  things  that  would 
add  to  your  blindness?  Would  you  not  expect  a  Teacher  to 
offer  such  teachings  for  your  guidance,  that  the  heroic  qualities 
of  your  natures  might  come  forth?    Would  you  not? 

Would  you  expect  any  system  in  the  world  to  be  like  this 
system,  or  this  system  to  be  like  any  other?  Would  you  not  ask 
for  something  more,  you  true  students  of  Theosophy?  Would 
you  wish  to  go  on  sleeping  and  temporizing  with  your  own 
weaknesses? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  1913.) 

101 


I  CANNOT  understand  how  any  student  who  has  faced  the 
glory  of  the  sun  from  our  beloved  Lomaland,  and  shared  in 
the  beautiful  nature-life  here,  who  has  looked  into  the  faces  of 
the  faithful  workers,  and  who  calls  himself  a  Theosophist,  could 
ever  fail  in  doing  his  whole  duty  to  himself  and  to  Humanity. 

5jt  5{!  J]I  5ji  J^S 

I  think  if  I  were  to  take  the  testimony  of  some  of  our  most 
successful  students  here, — those  who  have  reached  a  point  of 
self-conquest  almost  unbelievable, — they  would  say  that  their 
greatest  strength  they  found  in  attending  to  the  smallest  rule, 
which  the  careless  student  would  ignore  as  of  no  consequence. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  IQI3-) 

102 


LET  us  begin  a  new  line  of  thought,  so  to  speak,  and  realize 
the  joy  there  is  in  overcoming  obstacles.  It  is  impossible 
for  me  to  express  in  words  the  inner  joy  that  it  brings  to  me. 
To  be  sure,  my  brain  questions,  my  brain  wonders,  and  is  dis- 
turbed, when  I  meet  with  attacks  from  the  enemies  of  progress ; 
but  oh!  the  unspeakable  joy  that  comes  to  me  when  there  are 
obstacles  in  the  way! 

When  the  attacks  are  made,  then  I  know  that  I  have  some- 
thing more  to  do.  I  know  that  they  would  not  come  if  I  had 
not  the  strength  to  meet  them;  so  I  am  ready  at  any  moment 
to  push  on  and  ever  strive  to  sustain  the  ennobling  teachings  of 
Theosophy. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  1913) 

103 


GIVE  a  man  a  chance  to  find  himself.  Do  not  remind  him 
that  he  is  a  weakling,  by  discussing  what  he  likes  or  does 
not  like,  or  try  to  pave  the  way  for  him  in  his  weaknesses,  when 
you  have  not  met  your  own  weaknesses. 

When  you  try  to  do  this,  you  are  depriving  him,  so  to  speak, 
of  the  very  opportunities  that  he  needs  to  find  himself,  to  gain 
self-mastery.  .  .  .  Remember,  no  matter  where  we  go,  we  carry 
our  burdens  with  us. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  1913.) 

104 


REMEMBER  that  you  have  today  an  opportunity  such  as  has 
never  been  yours  before ;  and  so  out  of  this  sacred  hour,  let 
us  learn  some  few  lessons  in  self-control,  in  the  real  dignity  of 
soul-life.  .  .  . 

What  more  does  a  sane  mind  want,  than  the  opportunity  to 
overcome,  to  build,  and  to  gain  self-control?  What  a  need  there 
is  among  even  our  best  Theosophists  of  endeavoring  to  overcome 
their  smallest  weaknesses,  of  crossing  the  bridge  of  delusions 
and  reaching  the  real  life! 

To  live  in  the  realities  of  life!  That  is  what  all  students 
should  aim  to  do. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  19U) 

105 


DO  you  not  know,  if  you  are  living  in  the  world  of  realities, 
in  the  inner  world,  in  the  real  spiritual  life,  courageously 
and  heroically,  that  those  who  are  half-living,  half-dying,  those 
who  stand  timidly  waiting  and  questioning,  who  have  lost  faith 
in  human  nature,  will  feel  the  force  of  your  unity  and  of  your 
purposes? 

That  is  what  those  who  have  come  to  us  out  of  the  world 
have  felt.  .  .  .  They  have  felt  something  new;  and  now  an  ex- 
position must  come  from  you, — it  must  come  out  of  the  united 
heart-life  of  all  here — a  fuller  example  of  Theosophy  truly  lived. 


(From  Kather'ine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  1913.) 

106 


LET  us  study  the  inner  meaning  of  our  lives  and  our  possi- 
bilities, and  the  inner  meaning  of  Theosophy.     Study  its 
real  application  to  your  individual  lives. 

Give  your  time  to  these  efforts  and  you  will  have  no  time 
to  temporize  with  your  weaknesses,  nor  want  to  be  placed  in  this 
position,  or  in  that,  because  you  do  not  think  you  are  just  fitted 
for  the  one  you  occupy,  etc. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Lomo,  Sept.  28,  IQH-) 

107 


EACH  of  us  must  find  his  true  position  on  the  easy  path,  be- 
cause I  hold  that  the  right  path  is  the  easy  path.  I  do  not 
like  the  talk  about  the  other  path — the  path  of  eternal  struggle 
and  suffering.  That  idea  opens  the  gate  to  no  end  of  bad  Karma. 
But  the  path  to  self-conquest  is  the  easy  path; — it  is  the  royal 
path.  What  might  you  not  have  accomplished,  if  each  of  you 
had  moved  along  that  path  with  all  your  love  from  early  child- 
hood? 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Sept.  28,  1913) 

108 


ONCE  during  this  meeting,  I  tried  to  picture  in  my  mind 
what  our  revered  H.  P.  Blavatsky  would  say  if  she  were 
here.  I  know  what  she  would  feel ;  but  I  wonder  what  she  would 
say.     It  seems  to  me  that  she  would  say  this: 

"The  greatest  tribute  that  you  can  pay  to  my  memory  is  in 
noble  service  to  Theosophy  continuously.  Let  every  day  tell 
for  itself  the  true  purposes  of  your  life.  Make  use  of  your  time, 
for  it  is  precious;  and  feel  my  love,  feel  my  sympathy  with  all 
your  efforts.  Feel  that  inspiration  that  must  come  to  you 
through  the  ideals  which  have  been  taught  to  you  through  The- 
osophy. Try  to  live  the  real  life,  the  pure  life,  the  unselfish  life, 
the  inspired  life." 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Talk  to  the  Raja  Yoga  "Crusaders,"  Visings'6,  Sweden, 
H.  P.  Blavatsky' s  Birthday  Anniversary,  IQI3-) 

109 


DO  not  gossip,  do  not  criticise  nor  condemn  your  fellows ; 
but  rather,  in  all  your  association,  seek  that  mental  atti- 
tude which  will  bespeak  the  depths  of  your  feelings,  your  devo- 
tion to  principle,  and  your  love  of  your  fellowmen. 

*  *  *  ^  5JS 

I  love  to  study  your  faces;  they  each  tell  their  own  story. 
In  my  contact  with  human  nature,  I  sense  the  hidden  weak- 
nesses, the  insincerities  of  human  life,  as  well  as  the  high  aspir- 
ations and  endeavors;  and  no  one  can  dream  how  I  suffer,  when 
I  see  one  drifting  carelessly  away  from  the  true  path  of  right 
action. 


(From   Katherine    Tingley's    Talk   to   the  Raja   Yoga   "Crusaders,"   on   the   train, 
enroute,  Boston  to  San  Diego,  September  21,  1913.) 

no 


N 


OW  let  me  say :  Do  not  let  little  stumbling-blocks  stand  in 
your  path.  .  .  .  Remember  it  is  the  small  neglected  points 
in  connection  with  your  duties  that  will  mar  your  success. 

Remember  too,  that  if  you  drop  a  single  note  in  a  melody, 
the  whole  piece  of  music  is  marred;  and  so  it  is  in  your  lives. 
Perfect  harmony  cannot  exist  in  your  own  lives  if  you  allow 
yourselves  to  play  even  one  false  note. 

Self-mastery  is  gained  through  attention  to  the  smallest 
weaknesses  in  oneself. 


(From   Katherine    Tingley's    Talk   to   the  Raja    Yoga   "Crusaders,"   on   the   train, 
Sept.  23,  1913) 


Ill 


THE  suggestions  that  I  have  given  to  you  are  of  a  kind  that 
will  assist  you  to  broaden  out  your  characters  in  such  a  way 
that  when  the  time  comes,  you  can  reach  out  your  hands  to  your 
fellows  and  lessen  the  bad  Karma  of  others  not  so  fortunate  as 
yourselves.  .  .  . 

Some  day  when  I  shall  not  be  with  you  I  feel  that  these  sug- 
gestions of  mine  in  correction,  or  in  anticipation,  of  mistakes 
you  might  make,  will  tell  greatly  in  your  lives.  The  good  seeds 
have  been  sown,  and  though  you  may  not  all  have  seen  the 
meaning  of  them,  you  will  in  time,  I  assure  you. 


(From   Katherine   Tingley's    Talk  to  the  Raja   Yoga  "Crusaders,"  on   the  train, 
Sept.  23,  1913.) 

112 


I  FEEL  that  if  the  statesmen  of  the  present  time,  those  who 
have  the  power  to  adjust  national  and  international  affairs, 
would  evoke  within  themselves  those  higher  qualities  that  lie 
sleeping  in  them,  there  would  come  a  revelation  to  the  world. 
Their  minds  would  become  illuminated  as  though  touched  by 
light  from  the  gods.  They  would  awaken  to  their  power,  and 
through  that  power  would  act  wisely,  and  so  prepare  the  people 
of  the  world  for  a  manifestation  of  the  highest  principles  of 
justice. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Brief  Address  at  the  Reception  to  the  Spanish  Minister 
to  the  United  States,  Sr.  Dn.  Juan  Riano  y  Gayangos—Rdja  Yoga  College, 
Point  Loma,  California,  U.  S.  A.,  Sept.  27,  1913.) 


113 


SURELY  we  cannot  dream  of  happiness  and  real  peace  in 
national  and  international  life,  until  we  have  it  in  individual 
life,  and  vice  versa;  so  that  all  men  must  reach  down  into  the 
depths  of  their  natures,  challenge  themselves  and  bring  forth 
that  dignity  of  character  that  belongs  to  the  noble  men  of  all  ages. 
If  this  can  be  done,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  we  shall  have 
new  and  more  humane  laws  and  grand  results.  We  shall  have 
the  power  coming  to  the  minds  of  the  law-givers  and  the  ex- 
ecutives and  the  leaders  of  men,  to  open  a  way  whereby,  through 
arbitration,  there  shall  be  wisely  brought  forth  the  means  to 
stem  the  tide  of  disintegration,  to  eliminate  war  and  in  the  course 
of  time  to  bring  a  royal  splendid  Peace  to  all  the  people  of  the 
earth. 


(From    Katherine    Tingley's    Talk   to   the   Raja   Yoga   "Crusaders,"   on   the   train, 
Sept.  23,  1913.) 

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THE  one  great  sorrow  and  horror  of  the  world  today  is  the 
lack  of  faith,  even  among  the  noblest  minds — lack  of  faith 
in  anything. 

Most  men  today  are  pessimistic  and  cynical.  They  have  no 
faith  in  law,  in  humanity  or  government.  They  have  no  faith 
in  themselves  or  in  any  system  of  thought.  They  are  just  floun- 
dering around  like  a  ship  without  a  rudder.  They  see  the 
mountains  beyond,  and  they  see  the  blue  sky;  they  dream  and 
they  half  hope ;  but  in  their  general  attitude  (even  in  their  physi- 
cal bearing)  they  show  that  some  power  has  gone  out  of  their 
lives.  .  .  .  Their  minds  are  psychologized  with  a  pessimism  that 
is  absolutely  death-like.     It  is  pitiful,  pitiful. 


(From   Katherine   Tingley's  Address   to   her  Students,  Aryan   Memorial    Temple, 
Point  Loma,  Oct.  5,  1913.) 

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THERE  is  a  class  of  reckless  people  in  the  world  today  in 
whom  it  seems  as  though  the  spiritual  life  was  so  asleep 
that  it  would  take  ages  to  arouse  it, — a  class  of  people  who  pass 
in  the  world  as  being  honest,  and  fair,  and  successful,  but  who 
have  made  a  world  of  their  own — a  fools'  paradise. 

They  have  no  faith  in  human  nature;  they  are  cynical;  they 
have  no  trust  in  anything  and  so  they  are  going  "to  get  just  as 
much  out  of  this  life  as  they  can."  They  have  no  thought  of 
the  future,  and  are  running  to  worse  than  materialism ;  because 
an  honest  materialist  is  often  a  very  good  man,  a  man  of  high 
purposes  in  life,  who  endeavors  to  help  his  fellows. 

It  is  mental  degradation,  where  the  spiritual  forces  seem  to 
be  shut  off*. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Oct.  5,  1913.) 

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TN  the  condition  of  the  women  today,  there  is  a  pathetic  ex- 
1  expression  of  the  world's  sorrows.  While  men  have  their 
difficulties,  and  there  will  always  be  found  some  who  have  per- 
haps more  than  any  woman  ever  had,  still,  take  them  as  a  body, 
the  women  seem  to  be  carrying  the  burdens  of  the  world.  These 
facts  I  discerned  in  my  recent  travels  in  Europe. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Oct.  5,  1913.) 

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IF  you,  the  members  of  the  Universal  Brotherhood  and  Theo- 
sophical  Society,  are  to  accomplish  anything  for  the  world's 
good,  you  must  begin  right  here  and  get  the  weeds  out  of  your 
own  gardens — you  must  get  closer  to  your  own  divine  natures. 
You  must  be  indifferent  to  results  and  just  simply  go  on  do- 
ing our  duty  from  day  to  day. 

In  this  way  those  who  are  ready  to  accept  Theosophy  will 
find  it,  and  in  time  all  the  burdens  of  the  world  will  be  lifted, 
even  for  those  who,  I  am  sure,  cannot  be  touched  by  Theosophy, 
in  this  life;  for,  alas!  they  must  learn  more  and  suffer  more. 
Yet  by  your  efforts  they  may  be  helped  from  making  worse 
Karma  and  they  will  feel  your  sympathy,  and  that  glorious  and 
sublime  inspiration  of  brotherhood  that  will  prepare  them  so 
splendidly  for  another  life.  .  .  . 


(From  Kathertne  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Oct.  5,  1913) 

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I  BELIEVE  that  the  whole  body  of  the  Universal  Brother- 
hood and  Theosophical  Society  is  seriously  affected  on  this 
psychological  plane  whenever  anyone  of  you  deteriorates  or  falls 
back.  You  are  so  knit  together  on  these  different  planes  that  it 
is  absolutely  impossible  for  one  of  you  to  play  a  false  note,  so  to 
speak,  without  its  striking  the  hearts  of  those  who  may  be  suf- 
fering the  most  and  aspiring  the  most.  This  is  surely  a  lesson  of 
lessons. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Oct.  5,  1913) 

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I  CONSIDER  that  practically  this  Center  here  is  the  Spiritual 
"Hague"  of  the  world,  and  that  you  are  the  real  members  of 
the  true  Spiritual  Congress  of  Peace.  I  declare  to  you  that  if 
you  have  one-half  the  interest  in  Humanity  that  I  have  and  try 
to  hold  it  in  your  lives;  and  if  you  have  one-half  the  faith  in 
yourselves  that  I  have  in  you,  we  shall  be  able  to  astonish  the 
world  with  the  sublime  Truths  of  Theosophy.  Our  efforts  will 
be  so  lofty,  so  forceful,  and  so  adapted  to  the  needs  of  humanity, 
that  those  who  really  wish  for  Universal  Peace  will  recognize 
the  power  of  this  work. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  to  her  Students,  Point  Loma,  Oct.  5,  1913.) 

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I  THINK  that  we  have  educated  ourselves  to  the  fact  that  law 
and  order  are  very  important  factors  in  the  building  of  char- 
acter and  of  home  and  national  life,  and  that  necessarily  the  ex- 
ponents of  finite  law  must  be  educated  on  higher  lines,  in  order 
to  do  justice  to  their  profession. 

***** 

I  have  found  in  my  study  of  human  nature,  and  particularly 
of  those  who  represent  the  common  law,  that  among  them 
sometimes  we  are  surprised  to  find  very  wonderful  exponents  of 
the  Higher  Law, — the  spiritual  law — both  intellectually  and  in 
action.  Now  in  this  fact  we  have  a  proof  of  the  divinity  of  man ; 
we  have  also  proof  of  the  heart-life. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Reception  to  the  California  Bar  Associ- 
tion,  International  Theosophical  Headquarters,  Point  Loma,  Nov.  20,  IQI3) 

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1  CANNOT  think  of  any  profession  that  can  better  express  the 
the  justice  of  soul-life  than  that  of  the  legal  fraternity.  It 
seems  to  me  that  those  who  hold  this  power  in  their  hands, 
those  who  have  been  educated  to  represent  the  common  law, 
have  opened  the  first  portal  which  leads  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Higher  Law.  From  this  there  must  intuitively  come  to  them  a 
power  that  in  the  course  of  time  will  enable  them  to  become  real 
teachers  of  the  people. 

I  believe  the  time  is  approaching  when  the  intuition  of  man 
will  be  more  developed  and  more  and  more  expressive;  and 
then  those  who  are  the  interpreters  of  the  finite  law  will  become 
the  exponents  of  the  Higher  Law.  In  time  they  will  also  be- 
come the  real  statesmen  of  the  Age,  the  law-makers,  in  a  much 
higher  sense  than  we  dream  of  now. 


(From  Katherine  Tingley's  Address  at  the  Reception  to  the  California  Bar  Associ- 
ation, International  Theosophical  Headquarters,  Point  Loma,  California, 
November  20,  IQI3-) 

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MUSIC  is  often  regarded  as  an  amusement,  a  relaxation,  and 
nothing  more.  At  Point  Loma  it  becomes  a  part  of  life  it- 
self, and  one  of  those  subtle  forces  of  nature  which,  rightly  applied, 
calls  into  activity  the  divine  powers  of  the  soul.  .  .  .  There  is 
held  to  be  an  immense  correspondence  between  music  on  the 
one  hand  and  thought  and  aspiration  on  the  other;  and  only 
that  deserves  the  name  of  music  to  which  the  noblest  and  purest 
aspirations  are  responsive. 

Katherine  Tingley. 


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MUSIC  is  a  part  of  the  daily  life  at  the  International  Theoso- 
phical  Headquarters  at  Point  Loma,  not  merely  as  an  exer- 
cise which  occupies  its  stated  times  and  seasons,  but  as  a  principle 
which  animates  all  the  activities.  .  .  .  There  is  a  science  of  con- 
sciousness, and  into  that  science  music  can  enter  more  largely 
than  is  usually  supposed.  A  knowledge  of  the  laws  of  life  can 
be  neither  profound  nor  wide  which  thus  neglects  one  of  the 
most  effective  of  all  forces. 

Katherine  Tingley. 


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MEN  cannot  be  preached  into  compassion,  nor  sermonized  into 
brotherly  love,  nor  talked  into  love  of  justice.  The  virtues 
will  not  grow  in  the  nature  until  the  heart  is  touched,  and  the 
mystery-drama  is  the  Teacher's  magic  wand.  For  all  dramas 
which  give  us  a  true  picture  of  the  soul's  experiences  and  a  true 
interpretation  of  the  Higher  Law  and  of  life's  diviner  aspects 
are  mystery-dramas,  whether  written  by  Aeschylus,  or  Shake- 
speare, or  some  unknown  dramatist  past  or  to  come.  Life  is 
the  great  Mystery,  and  in  unveiling  it,  in  the  light  of  knowledge, 
the  true  drama  has  ever  been,  and  will  ever  be,  man's  great  in- 
structor. 

Katherine  Tingle y. 


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WHILE  the  bells  are  ringing  on  the  outer  plane,  calling  men 
to  a  recognition  of  the  New  Time,  the  soft,  silvery  tones  of 
the  compassionate  Heart  of  Life  are  sending  forth  their  sweet 
music  to  the  souls  of  men,  calling  them  away  from  the  paths  of 
darkness,  unrighteousness  and  despair,  to  the  ever-abiding  Glory 
of  a  Truer  and  Better  Life,  and  the  Hope  and  Peace  of  a  new  Day. 

Katherine  Tincley. 


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